I turned my own technology hobbies into a small sideline business, and have built around me an environment filled with social adventures and business opportunities. As the Founder and CEO of Radcliff Design (www.radcliffdesign.com), I work with clients in the areas of content design and writing services. I am the author of two books: Business as Usual, Technology as Usual, and have a third book that I am currently working on.

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    Business Walks for Creativity – All Seasons

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    Business Walks for Creativity – All Seasons. I watched a Ted Ex video the other day about chat walks. Taking your business meetings and making them outside meetings. Inspired by this talk, one has only to think about some of the following items: decide on the location of the walk the length of time available to walk whom you will meet with what you will discuss and the weather of course. The amount of stress alone saved in taking a chat walk is worth its weight in gold. It also helps to cut your blood pressure down, beef up your cardio, raise those happy endorphin’s, and bring a level of…

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